We usually buy from the store unless we're being super ambitious. Sauce isn't a cultural imperative to us, so we take shortcuts...
Do you buy marinara sauce from the store, or make your own?
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I usually buy sauces.
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Both. Short cuts are totally fine, says this Italian American.
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Buy...I am not very competent in the kitchen so I could slave over homemade for hours and store bought would still taste better.
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Make our own.
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we buy sauce. but i sometimes add additional fresh veggies to it.
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Make my own.
My nana would slap me with a wooden spoon if I bought store sauce
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I grew up with a mom who made meatballs and sauce so I can't in good faith buy jarred sauces.
I will use it if a recipe calls for it though - like for the slow cooker.
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buy
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I buy the White Linen brand from Costco.
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i buy it. i've never actually made my own
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Usually buy and doctor it, but sometimes, I will make my own. I'm not really very good at it, though. My sauce is always so, so acidic, and it just ends up tasting nasty.
@Mrs. Jump Rope: lol, do I get a pass for not having one ounce of Italian in my blood? Bonus points because DH isn't a drop Italian, either, which is so, so unusual for where we both grew up!
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I buy it.
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Buy for convenience, but the recipe I have is so much better. I should make a huge batch and freeze.
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Buy and make, depending on how much time I have or what I'm using it for.
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I just make it now, but I'd love to try out a real authentic Italian recipe.
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@LovelyPlum: no my nana would make you come over and she'd teach you how to make sauce. Our recipe is a family recipe from Italy! My family there still uses it. She'd tell you it's top secret and wave a spoon at you so you know she means business.
I get yelled at for buying canned soup. I just don't have 6 hours to make stock and soup!!
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We buy premade
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@LovelyPlum: it's not that complicated, really, if you start with a good base of canned tomatoes.
Most Italians living in Italy don't even make sauce for 100 hours any more.
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I make big batches of it every few months, cool, bag and freeze it.
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I buy it but it makes DH crazy because he makes it.
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Make it from scratch. Store bought never tastes as good.
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We rarely use it so I just buy it. But if someone has a great recipe to share, I'd love to give it a try!
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@coopsmama: one of our recipes is diced tomatoes, garlic and oil, with basil and oregano.
We heat the oil, sautée minced garlic then add in diced tomatoes (drained). We add oregano and basil to taste.
It's really good over whole wheat linguine. I use the same recipe (but with petite diced) to make bruschetta topping!
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Dh always makes it, very quickly and tastily, but I like having a jar in the cupboard for when/if we need it in a pinch
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I buy from the store
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It would never occur to me to make my own sauce!
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We just buy them!
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I buy it. My mil makes really good sauce. But she always burns it whenshe reheats it.
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store bought for us
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@Mrs. Jump Rope: Oh thanks for sharing! I'm saving it and will give it a go next time we get a hankering for some pasta. That sounds easy and quick enough.
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@coopsmama: it's a good pizza topping too! We make deep dish pizza & use that sauce recipe. ITS SO DELICIOUS. I love garlic so we are pretty generous with it.
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Make
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@Mrs. Jump Rope: sounds like I need to meet your nana! Seriously, mine is always gross.
@looch: lol, I'm sure it's not. I think it's just one of those things, like browning pork chops, that I'm just not that good at.
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@Mrs. Jump Rope: Pizza we do more often so will definitely be using it -- probably within the next week or so. I'll be sure to add plenty of garlic. (Side note: garlic is one of the smells I can barely tolerate while in the dreaded nausea/MS stage of pregnancy...so glad to be 18 weeks and moving out of that! I missed garlic in my cooking. Such a bummer to go months without it!)
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I make sauce once a year totally from scratch when we grow all the ingredients in our garden. Then I can all the sauce I'll need for the next year. So in my day to day it's convenience canned sauce but it's totally homemade.
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I buy and doctor it with meat/mushrooms/etc. My Sicilian inlaws would never approve, but while I'd like to learn to make their family recipe, for now this is just easier and faster. It's on my regular weeknight rotation because it's easy.
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I'm sensitive to them being too acidic. I buy vodka sauce at the store, but loving making our own with carrots in it that cuts the acidity enough. It's been forever since I have made it though- it is ambitious!
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I make it in big batches and freeze. My MIL taught me how to make sauce and meatballs before I was even engaged to DH... I joke that he probably wouldn't have proposed if I hadn't passed the sauce test!
I do also keep one jar of store-bought in the pantry for one dish that just tastes better with this local brand.
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either--if i'm making lasagna, i definitely buy because it's already a time-consuming recipe. otherwise i usually make it.
I will use it if a recipe calls for it though - like for the slow cooker.
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